Heinz 56 Amanda Reynolds Books

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Comments A young poet with the soul of a much older one, Amanda Reynolds does for Pittsburgh what Carl Sandburg did for Chicago. Part history and part pure imagination, these incantatory poems take you to a place you'll want to visit again and again, a vanishing world that, thanks to Reynolds' keen eye and big heart, will now live forever. --David Kirby Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English Florida State University "I see that the word of my city is that word up there," Walt Whitman says in "Mannahatta," his hymn to the beloved city. So, too, Amanda Reynolds searches for the word of her metropolis, Pittsburgh, by surveying its gutsy history and celebrating its icons including Iron City beer, and Sidney Crosby, and of course a famous ketchup company. What results is an ambivalent love song and a first book filled with brash and spunky poems, each one steeled against sentimentality and yet full of unflappable American joy. --Christopher Bakken This lively paean to Pittsburgh is filled to brimming with its history, food, drinks, roads, rivers, families, sports teams, bridges, schools, local events, restaurants and more, interspersed with a surprisingly moving meditation on a failed love affair. It doesn't take long, however, to realize that the passion at the heart of the book is for the city itself. A constantly surprising read, it delivers a wonderfully detailed portrait of this scrappy, vibrant place and of its scrappy and vibrant chronicler as well. --Sidney Wade